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SubjectRe: Being more anal about iospace accesses..
Linus Torvalds writes:
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, JЖrn Engel wrote:
> >
> > C now supports pointer arithmetic with void*?
>
> C doesn't. gcc does. It's a documented extension, and it acts like if it
> was done on a byte.
>
> See gcc's user guide "Extension to the C Language Family".
>
> It's a singularly good feature.

Unfortunately it breaks even better identity

foo *p;

p + nr == (foo *)((char *)p + nr * sizeof *p)

unless one thinks that is --together with gcc-- that nothing occupies
exactly one byte.

>
> Linus

Nikita.

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